Transnational Climate Impacts Index

The paper presents the Transnational Climate Impacts Index, a tool designed to shift the perspective of climate adaptation from a purely local or regional focus to an international one. It identifies nine specific indicators to measure how globalized economies and interconnections expose countries to climate impacts originating elsewhere.

• The authors argue that while climate mitigation is seen as a global issue, impacts and adaptation are often incorrectly viewed as only regional or local, ignoring the interconnections of a globalized economy.
• The paper establishes a framework to quantify country-level exposure to transnational climate impacts using nine distinct indicators and a composite Transnational Climate Impacts Index.
• The framework utilizes nine specific indicators to measure exposure: Transboundary water dependency ratio, Bilateral climate-weighted foreign direct investment, Remittance flows, Openness to asylum, Migration from climate vulnerable countries, Trade openness, Cereal import dependency ratio, Embedded water risk, and the KOF Globalization Index.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2016). Transnational Climate Impacts Index. https://www.sei.org/publications/transnational-climate-impacts-index/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Transnational Climate Impacts Index. 2016. https://www.sei.org/publications/transnational-climate-impacts-index/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2016transnational, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Transnational Climate Impacts Index}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2016}, month = jun, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/transnational-climate-impacts-index/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }